Pastoral Resources

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.

The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.